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...Southpaw Milt Holt will be Harvard's mound leader again this year. Holt won several key games for Harvard including a tight 2-1 decision over Penn ace Andy Muhlstock during the Crimson's pennant campaign and was the only Harvard selection to the All-Eastern squad last year...
Powell supplied the clout, with three hits--one a homer--and three runs batted in, while southpaw Mike Cuellar pitched well with men on base to keep the Oriole express one game behind the New York Yankees, who were also winning, 2-1, over the Cleveland Indians...
QUARTERBACK: The key to Harvard's attack will be the extent of southpaw quarterback Milt Holt's ability to fill the shoes of Jim Stoeckel. Holt has seen limited varsity experience the last two years, and whether he can do the job is uncertain. His best efforts last year were a 25-minute stint in the Columbia game in which the lefty completed 14 of 27 passes, and the Penn game, in which Holt was 13 for 26 and 172 yards...
...String Southpaw. In public or private, Rockefeller has an exuberant lifestyle, as if great wealth has stimulated hyperbole of word and deed. He constantly says "terrific" and "great" when he really means "O.K." Everybody he greets becomes, momentarily at least, his friend. "Hiya fella!" he shouts, often because he does not remember the fella's name. He buys art the way he shakes hands: ebulliently, rather indiscriminately. Then he continually rearranges his paintings, shuffling them from home to home to suit his mood, sometimes putting up a new display just before the dinner guests arrive...
...with his character -and some would say his politics-he is somewhat ambidextrous, using his right hand to write, playing tennis with his left. He was lefthanded as a boy, but his father tied a string to his left wrist at the dinner table. When Nelson tried to eat southpaw, his father gave a yank. Rockefeller does not smoke and only occasionally has a Dubonnet on the rocks or some wine. There is no way of telling that he is a Rockefeller from his dress. His nondescript suits are invariably rumpled, his ties unmemorable...